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h5. Beach Sand, Kovalam Beach, Kerala State, India

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| Kovalam Beach \\ 
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{table-cell} | Ilmenite, some garnet |

| *Location* \\ | Kovalam Beach, Kerala, south-west tip of India |
| *Depositional facies* \\ | _replace this with text about the dep facies_ |
| *Provenance* \\ | High-grade metamorphic and mafic to intermediary plutonic proterozoic rocks of the indian craton |
| *Composition* \\ | Black, metallic resplendend ilmenite (ca. 70%), partly euhedral; translucent, bright green titanite (?, ca. 10%), black red to pink translucent garnet (ca. 10%), commonly zircon (colourless, long-prismatic) and quartz (colourless) |
| *Texture* | Fine sand (ca. 170 µ), very well sorted, well to very well rounded |
h6. Petrographic thin section:
| *Description* | Opaque ilmenite dominates the image. This impression is reinforced in the dark field by garnets; merely some clinopyroxenes stand out with their coloures |

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| Bright field \\
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{table-cell} | Dark field |

| *Sample number* | heubeck0075 |
| *Collector* | A. Deeken | 
| *Date of sampling* | 2004 |

h6. Comments:

The existence of thorazite at Kovalam Beach is mentioned in Wikipedia, but is not certified. Famous locality for sand collectors.
The sand has been collected above the waterline

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